Example sentences of "can [adv] [vb infin] [pron] to " in BNC.
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| 1 | Team-teaching alongside a knowledgeable and enthusiastic colleague can effectively take one to the next stage . |
| 2 | And by this means , perhaps , by being ambitious or ‘ miriad-minded ’ , I can perhaps address myself to the nature of this foulness : how can a man do such a thing ? |
| 3 | Erm yeah I did mention earlier actually there was one or two ways that you could perhaps help me er one was erm I hope , I 'd like to think that obviously my service has been of value to you erm I 'd also like to think that you can perhaps recommend me to people you know er you did actually mention earlier erm was it Peter you work with , was it |
| 4 | From the available information , we can not tell how many of the 1160 deaths in 1986 belong to the 1946 cohort so we can only estimate it to be 1160÷2 = 580 and assume that another 580 of the 1946 cohort will die in 1987 . |
| 5 | So far as talking is concerned , they can only do it to each other . |
| 6 | Unfortunately , there is no real solution to these difficulties and again we can only leave it to the reader to arrive at his or her own conclusion on the basis of the material presented . |
| 7 | Tell him , you can only , you can only advise you to actually invest in the managed fund . |
| 8 | Anyone who considers such trivial questions as humour or literary merit is clearly living in a previous century and I can only refer them to the motto of the Punch accountancy department , which is : ‘ If they can read , we do n't want 'em . ’ |
| 9 | For the face as simulacrum can only refer us to yet another image , there being no true face behind the mask . |
| 10 | I can only commend myself to God , repenting my sins . |
| 11 | Although the machine intelligences we create will be based on our own form of intelligence and an extension of it , we can nevertheless expect them to be alien in many ways . |
| 12 | Well they can physically do it to you with use of fists , use of hands and whatever else they 've got and they can mentally do it to you like put you in jail that or all sorts of things like when I was on sick leave , they came and lifted me . |
| 13 | With practice this skill becomes instinctive and you do n't have to think about your sailing — you can just switch yourself to ‘ automatic pilot ’ and concentrate on other aspects of the race . |
| 14 | ‘ It is entirely up to you whether you can gradually raise yourself to the highest position of eminence ever achieved by a musician … whether you choose to leave this world having been ensnared by a skirt , forced to lie on straw and shut up with an attic-full of starving children , or whether , after a Christian life , you go full of satisfaction , honour and glory , your family well provided for , and your name revered by all . ’ |
| 15 | It is a religiously-guarded principle that small clubs can still make it to the top flight . |
| 16 | After nine years association with him he can still move me to tears , and other people in the Labour Party who might be more cynical than I am . ’ |
| 17 | JOHN MAJOR anxiously awaits , but John Lukic has already won his European vote of confidence from Leeds United team-mates convinced he can still take them to Champions Cup fame and fortune against Rangers tonight . |
| 18 | you can still address them to me . |
| 19 | We can always give one to Guy ca n't we ? |
| 20 | ‘ You can hardly expect her to be . ’ |
| 21 | ‘ Well , ’ said Owen , ‘ you can hardly expect her to . ’ |
| 22 | ‘ , ‘ Surely God can hardly expect me to … |
| 23 | I 've an aversion to tale-bearing from my schooldays , but the man 's such a public menace we can hardly allow ourselves to be deterred by scruples of that sort . ’ |
| 24 | Your new patio will be designed and built in time for spring when you can really enjoy it to the full . |
| 25 | The role it actually plays is that of an exclamation , or a signal to another person that he can now expect me to , say , continue a series according to a formula . |
| 26 | We can now address ourselves to that much discussed but much misunderstood phenomenon of British.imperial thinking in the early decades of the twentieth century , the glorification of ‘ Indirect Rule ’ and its elevation into an official doctrine of imperial administration . |
| 27 | I mean the beautiful thing about Micromail is y you can get a a a a message up , you can immediately copy it to three other people , or thirty other people if you wish , erm and you can reply to it instantly without having to , you know y you just type a message in and press the button , and it 's gone . |
| 28 | Er , seeing this here , does it mean that anybody that loses er , a vote in a sub-committee can then move it to the budget review to have a second go at winning it ? |
| 29 | I understand that any such information is presented by the control computer , which can then convey it to the police officer concerned . |
| 30 | Use pliers or a small spanner to turn the spindle to full on , noting how many turns this took so you can then restore it to its original position later . |